Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C22H24N2O8, derived from tetracycline.

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  • noun pharmacology A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C22H24N2O8, derived from tetracycline.

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  • noun an antibiotic derived from tetracycline that is effective against many infections

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[d(e)oxy– + (tetra)cycline.]

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Examples

  • Tegon, as the pup is called, may hold the key to many human diseases, as the glow-in-the-dark property can be controlled with the addition of an antibiotic called doxycycline.

    Genetically Engineered, Glow-In-The-Dark Beagle Created By South Korean Scientists The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Tegon, as the pup is called, may hold the key to many human diseases, as the glow-in-the-dark property can be controlled with the addition of an antibiotic called doxycycline.

    Genetically Engineered, Glow-In-The-Dark Beagle Created By South Korean Scientists The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • My eyes were tearing from the pain of the IV: they had me on doxycycline, which is great stuff it brought my white count back down to 9,000 in two days but also burns the veins going in.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Susan Palwick 2006

  • Now that we know that this microbe is sensitive, you have a generic drug called doxycycline, as well as generic penicillin that is quite effective against this.

    CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2001 2001

  • GREGORY MARTIN, BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL: We'll be treating them with 60 days of doxycycline, which is what the CDC is now recommending because we are fortunate to have a very sensitive organism.

    CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2001 2001

  • And we are just taking safety's stake and looking at all of the people who were actually in that office, who had visited us in that office, and we'll be treating them with 60 days of doxycycline, which is what the CDC is now recommending because we are fortunate to have a very sensitive organism.

    CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2001 2001

  • When Juanita felt satisfied that modern medicines were the best treatment for her health problem, Don Pedro gave Juanita some pills called doxycycline and co-trimoxazole and told her to come back in a week, after she had taken them all.

    Chapter 7 1997

  • Tegon, as the pup is called, may hold the key to many human diseases, as the glow-in-the-dark property can be controlled with the addition of an antibiotic called doxycycline.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Combining several cutting-edge genetic engineering techniques, Tonegawa's laboratory invented a method called doxycycline-inhibited circuit exocytosis-knockdown, or DICE-K-an acronym that also reflects Tonegawa's admiration of ace Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka.

    Biosingularity 2008

  • Combining several cutting-edge genetic engineering techniques, Tonegawa's laboratory invented a method called doxycycline-inhibited circuit exocytosis-knockdown, or DICE-K-an acronym that also reflects Tonegawa's admiration of ace Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka.

    Biosingularity 2008

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